There's no time to be bitter about life; there's only time to get better.
03128 – Bitter vs. Better
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03120 – Lost vs. Found
What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.
03096 – Three Things
To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. from In Blackwater Woods
03089 – Saddest and Hardest
The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.
03051 – Nothing More Beautiful
There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others.
03047 – Life is…
Life is no holiday game, nor a clever book, nor a school of instruction, nor a valley of tears, but it is a hard fight, a struggle, a wrestling with the principles of evil hand to hand, foot to foot. Every inch of the way must be disputed.
03025 – Essential of Daily Life
For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner. It is not a mechanical routine but something essential to my daily life. I go to the piano, and I play two preludes and fugues of Bach. I cannot think of doing otherwise. It is a sort of benediction...
03013 – Our Obsession with Being Right
Our obsession with being right in our eschatological and theological arguments is an idolatrous impediment to sharing the gospel (which is meant as good news for all people in the here and now). The fear-induced pressure for us to somehow “save” people from a...
03003 – People Need to Travel
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's...
02999 – Be Whoever You Want to Be
For what it's worth: It's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit; stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same; there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make...